Showing posts with label ikea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ikea. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Ikea advertisement mocking a corruption scandal in Portugal



NPR:
Home furnishings giant Ikea recently placed billboards in Portugal advertising a self-assembly bookcase, with a wink at the country's political upheaval. "A good place to stash books. Or to stash 75,800 euros," it said.

That's the amount of cash, equivalent to $82,000, police found stuffed in envelopes on bookshelves when they searched the office of the prime minister's chief of staff last year during a corruption investigation.

The discovery triggered a scandal that brought down the government and led to an early general election on Sunday.
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Saturday, January 7, 2023

"The Showroom" is an upcoming immersive experience in Los Angeles about being trapped in an infinite Ikea with a murderer



You can buy tickets for shows starting in February or support the crowd funding campaign:
From the creators of Abandoned and Signals comes a new interactive experience set in the SCP Universe!

You have become trapped in the infinite IKEA, aka SCP 3008, and unfortunately a murderer lurks among us. They look like us and appear to think like us, but they are not like us. They are the first observed instance of SCP-3008-3, and the humans do not know who is the imposter.  

Enter The Showroom and help Foundation members and other trapped civilians solve a murder mystery before the murderer claims their next victim. Who is human and who is an SCP in disguise? Moreover, how do we define humanity?

Find out in The Showroom, Feb. 9th-Mar. 5th, 2023.




*Previously: Three good short science fiction posts from the SCP Foundation; Police called to Scottish IKEA after thousands sign up for hide and seek
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Sunday, August 21, 2022

The new season of the "I Spy" podcast is very good

Catching and extraditing a Russian hacker, befriending and ensnaring a suspected mole, and more.

And speaking of spy stories, this podcast about tracking illegal loggers in Eastern Europe that supply Ikea is also very good.
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

The most inaccessible keyboard in all of fiction; Fun with the Ikea kitchen tool; Pagoda hot air balloon













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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Ikea unveiled its new gaming chair

Ikea:

In total, the new gaming range includes more than 30 products, covering both furniture – gaming desks and chairs, a drawer unit – and accessories – a mug holder, a mouse bungee, a neck pillow, a ring light and many more

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The new gaming range will target PC gamers and include six product families: HUVUDSPELARE, UTESPELARE, MATCHSPEL, GRUPPSPEL, UPPSPEL, LÅNESPELARE

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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Guerrilla art exhibit at the Tate Modern; Instagram dedicated to Center Pivot Sprinklers; Very good Ikea rug




















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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Downloadable modifications for the Ikea x teenage engineering speakers



Teenage engineering posted a bunch of downloadable files to 3d print modifications for the Frekvens speakers and lights.
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Thursday, September 12, 2019

"Police called to Scottish IKEA after thousands sign up for hide and seek"; A brief history of hide and seek at Ikea; Youtube personality arrested near Area 51

Scotsman:
At some point on Saturday, staff at Braehead became aware of a Facebook thread suggesting some 3,000 youths were about to descend on the store.


As well as drafting in extra security, Ikea contacted Police Scotland, who dispatched five officers.



Throughout the afternoon, groups of youths who looked like they were only there for the game were turned away from the shop.

Fast Company:
Ikea has repeatedly asked people not to play hide-and-seek in its stores. And yet people keep organizing massive, thousand-person games at Ikea.

The first evidence of this trend dates back to 2014, when a Belgian blogger named Elise De Rijck coordinated a hide-and-seek meet-up at her local Wilrijk store to celebrate her 30th birthday. She created a Facebook group and invited her friends—but soon, thousands of people had joined the group. Ikea Belgium got wind of the plan and instead of squashing it, offered Ikea’s full support, including extra staff and security to host the event. From the photos that still circulate online, the event was a riot, replete with people hiding under bins and beds all over the store.

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Ikea hide-and-seek has become a *thing*, as evidenced by countless YouTube videos where “adults” are sneaking around to play unofficially.
KTNV:
The two men who were arrested for trespassing onto the Nevada National Security Site have been released on $500 bail, according to Nye County Sheriff's Office.

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[The men] are from the Netherlands.

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[One of them] told the police he was a YouTube personality and police saw cameras and a drone inside their vehicle.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Ten funny tweets









































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Saturday, January 13, 2018

"If you’re pregnant, peeing on [Ikea's print] ad reveals a special discounted price on cribs, thanks to technology similar to that in pregnancy-test kits"

"This is definitely the coolest pee-based advertising since Animal Planet put urine-scented ads at the bottom of lampposts to attract dogs (whose owners then saw a larger ad at their own eye level promoting a dog award show)."
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Ikea candles come with a lot of warnings


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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

"More Than A Thousand People Lined Up Outside Of The New Giant IKEA Store In Burbank"

LAi:
the first 26 people received a free sofa, while the subsequent 100 each received a free chair. The first 2,500 people will get a gift card to use at the store's 600-seat restaurant.

People were allowed to begin lining up at 6 a.m., three hours prior to the 9 a.m. grand opening. At about 8:30 a.m. this morning, officials including Burbank Mayor Jess Talamantes sawed a log in half—the Swedish equivalent of cutting a ribbon.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Link roundup

1. "Baron Davis made a sad discovery before his first trip this month with the Delaware 87ers of the N.B.A. Development League."
“Delaware is not like Hollywood,” Davis said. “But Delaware is cool.
2. Travel photos + plastic dinosaurs = magic.

3. "Beverly Hills put a spotlight on its celebrity water wasters -- and it worked"
The letters went to entertainment industry figures such as comedian Amy Poehler, prominent real estate developers such as Geoff Palmer and other notable names. An estate owned by philanthropist and former media mogul David Geffen used an average of about 27,000 gallons of water a day between June 2 and Aug. 2 — roughly 60 times what an average Los Angeles family uses
4. Ikea has a new hydroponics set.
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